Today’s google doodle is dedicated to Kadambini Ganguly, an inspiring lady who was born in Bhagalpur, Bihar and wrote history by achieving exceptional heights during her lifetime.

Google has already honoured her by dedicating the doodle on her 160th birth anniversary, born today in the year 1861. She belonged to an upper-class Bengali family and her father Braja Kishore Basu who was a Brahmo reformer and founder of Bhagalpur Mahila Samiti. She was born in an era when, educating a girl was far beyond imagination of people but, opposite to that her father encouraged her to pursue her education, after completing her schooling. she wanted to pursue her career in medicine and she cracked the entrance exam of University of Calcutta, she got admission in the university and became first women to do so but, after facing lot of struggles and denial from the society. At every stage of her life, she has to face a lot of obstacles mostly from society to fulfil her dreams and ambition. She later went abroad and received a triple diploma from training in Dublin, Glasgow and Edinburgh, adding another feather to the cap she became the first women to achieve such a qualification. On her return to India, she served great ladies like- Florene nightingale, Anne Beasant and other people. By this time, she got recognised for her work, a medical professional who was serving her nation. In the year 1890, she gave a lecture at INC which is again something exceptional that she did at that time

Later, she started working on improving the condition of the society, where educating a girl child and letting her pursue her dreams was considered unacceptable. She was always supported by her husband Dwarkanath Ganguliyand along with him she raised her voice against the discrimination between a male and female that she herself faced at the university, her voice turned out to be so impactful that in 1915 the University of Calcutta made the decision to open the university for female candidates as well.

As a woman medical practitioner, she was not only dedicated to her work but also had a vision to bring change in the society by setting an example since her schooling to her triple diploma, an inspirational and passionate women wo created history back then. Today, it’s her 160 th birth anniversary and her story makes us remember the contribution of all those women who worked really hard and stood up against the wrong opinion and criticism of society to become what they wanted to be. All the stories have one common learning that there is nothing that a women can not achieve just that she has to have that courage to step up herself and cross the boundaries that the society sets up by the narrow perspective they have in their mind. By proving all the critics wrong, and successfully reaching at a level that is beyond the imagination of an orthodox mentality.
Today, in many countries women are in a much better situation but, there is still so much that has to be changed.